m '-: r f / r irt'n r-?. itycrage Dafiy Net Press Bim The Weather For the Week Ended ' P^r, oool tonight, low in May 21, 196S 40o; partly sunny, oool tomor­ row, high near 7d) 14,728 Manchester-^A City of VOlagb Charm (CUMitled Adv^rtlking on Page IS). PRICE SEVEN CENTil MANCHESTER, CONN., TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1966 VOL. LXXXV, No. 204 (TWENTY PAGES) <d " .i . - . V______ ‘Go’ ■J.1 *> __ /* ____ For Gemini Joiirney ss . > Noon Hour Launch Set ivV : { - m Tomorrow CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) — The “ go” light H- flashed brightly to track­ ing stations around the world today for the Gemi­ ni 9 spacemen to embark f o na three-day exploration of some unknowns of space travel. "We’re ready to go,” said Air Force Lt. Col. Thomas P. Staf­ ford. His rookie pilot, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Eugene A. Cernan, soon to become the world’s champion cosmic stroller, agreed. They’ll ride a mighty Titan .=1 rocket into the hostile void of / space at 12:38 p.m. (EOT) (AP Plu»tofa.x) Wednesday to search the skies Yesterday they watched — tomorrow they ride! Astronauts Tom Stafford for a stubby target satellite, (left) and Gene Cernan (right) watched yesterday as Surveyor I biased o ff then boWy latch Gtemini 9's nose from Cape Kennedy. Fellow astronaut Donald Slayton is between them. to it. ‘It Is Altogether Fitting and Proper We Do This Their target, known as an Augmented Target Docking Saluting the Civil War statue in Center Park, a the base of the statue were placed there during the Adapter — ATDA, wlU be pow­ Memorial Day service. (Story and other pictures ered into a 185-mile high circu­ member of the 134th MP Battalion of the Connecti­ Surveyor I on Right Path cut National Guard pays tribute to Manchester s on page 10.) (Herald photo by Ofiara) lar course around the globe by an Atlas booster one hour and 38 war dead during ceremonies yesterday. Wreaths at mintites before the Titan cranks Its engines. For Soft Landing on Moon Mission director William C. Schneider got a thorough brief­ Fresh Fish P a s a d e n a , CaUf. (a p ) — indication so far that the steer­ If all goes well, however, Sur­ ing on the status of the rockets, Buddhist Leaders Meet Surveyor 1 cruised today toward ing maneuver was disturbed by veyor will radio across 230,000 weather and ' astronauts this CRANBROOK. B.C. (AP) a new and hopefully smoother any shift in the craft’s center of miles of space pictures 'almost morning, then announced: (‘Ev­ —It rained so hard in landing site on the moon after a gravity, a possibility that arose as sharp as those seen on home erything good, no problems, Cranbrook yesterday you tricky steering maneuver 97,000 when radioed data indicated an television screens, showing status is good." could pick up fish from the miles out in space. antenna boom may not have terrain details as small as a Chief lawn in a downtown park. Healthy and trained to razor With Viet Junta Jet propulsion laboratory offi­ extended fully after launch. pencil lead. sharpness, the Gemini twins An inch of rain in less cials, who are guiding the 2,200- 'There was still a chance that These pictures ^oul<f give planned a final review of their C A T P n 'N ^Sniitb Viet man Catholic and a target In the Thich Tam Chau, head of the than an hour backed an un­ pound camera-carrying craft a shift in the center of gravity aclontists a better idea of vital, action-packed mission r X m ’ S d h i s t Buddhist campaign to force powerful Buddhist Institute, derground river through a toward a soft landing in the dry might cause the craft to twnble whether' the lunar surface is Nam (A P ) — nu^nisx military junta to resign in headed the delegation of four with top space agency officials storm sewer into the park, Sea of Storms late Wednesday, airid crash when the descent Strong enough to support the leaders held a surpnse ^ provisional civilian that called at heavily guarded during the day. They also hoped With the river came dozens said Surveyor responded break; rockets are igsilted on weight of large nianned landing ^ggi^g Oia Long Palace, Thleu's resi- meeting with leaders of the of trout, some of them 12 to crowd in a few more hours of the fihi approach to the moon, craft. ” practice sessions in a mTOkuo properly to all commands dur- military junta today, ap- _ meetin« came after an- 4«»c«- inches long. ^ ing the intricate change of version of the tiny Gemini parently the first round of „ Buddhlrt had burned her. An institute spokesman said Children scooped them up course. iQMceehip. talks to end the antlgov- g^y death in Hue, center of stetemmt will be niade for and took them home for They said it would take sever­ emment campaign by com- government oppoeltlon in the Vietnamese dinner. al hours of tracking to be sure official said the talks were (See Page Eight) prom ise. north. She was the fifth and pos- Surveyor’s new course will "simply preliminary and may Holiday I^ad Deaths A The monks met with Premier slbly the sixth suicide in the bring it down, as now pianned, be followed by other meetings.” Nguyen Cao ,Ky and Chief of wave of antigovemment pro- about 20 miles north of the point ■' <;Vi ■“ ’• 1 Unconfirmed reports swept * *'u'iJ picked prior to Monday’s Btate Nguyen Van Thleu, a Ro. tests. Saigon that some members of " the government were consid­ launch. Set National Record The new site was chosen to ering asking for Ky's resigna­ Hemlines Dropping CHIOAGO (A P )—The presi­ local time Friday to last mid­ give the spacecraft the smooth­ tion to further a settlement wjth dent of the National Safety night. est possible landing area in the the Buddhists. Council called today for an The highest t»:eyiouB traftio Thousands of Leftists 02-mile diameter target circle — The Influential monk Thich expenditure of an additional death toll for a three-day ■ Designers Report at the western edge of the 1,700- Tri Quang, leader of the Bud­ billion dollars a year lor traffic Memorial Day period was 474 Down go feau, a French designer who is . mile long equatorial strip se' safety in the wake of a record last yesLT. dhist struggle movement in tiie LONDON (AP) astro­ Visit northern provinces, issued an akirts. celebrating 16 years In the Unit- lected for. future Apollo Memorial Day highway death In 1968, 625 persona w^r« U.S. A-Sub’s naut touchdowns. appeal earlier in the day for a Those three words from Paris ed States, is showing tweed toU. killed during a four-day Memo-^ Like the Soviet Luna 9, which halt to protest suicides alter the and New York today caused skirts for autumn several inches Howard Pyle said this money rial Day weekend. soft-landed and televised pic­ 17-year-old girl had set herself surprise, gloom and defiance In below the knee. should be used for an Intensltied tures from the lunar surface The number of deaths over Protested in Japan on lire In Hue, his stronghold, London, original home of the program which he estimated Said Jean Rook, one of Lon- February 3, Surveyor is pi­ the holiday weekend was above Quang said he spoke for the su­ would cut highway fatalities at thigh-high hemline. don’s brightest fashion writere; oneering a technique planned to the preholiday estimate made TOKYO (AP) — Thousands of brought to the port 30 miles preme patriarch of South Viet­ least in half. "I just don’t believe it,” said "It’s more than a drop. It’s an deposit manned craft gently on by the safety council; The leftist demonstrators renewed south of Tokyo by the Oommu namese Buddhism, Tich ’Tinh A total of 542 persons died in council esttraalted between 460 Police Alice Pollock, a respected avalanche." the moon. their protests tonight in Yokosu- ndst and Socialist parties, Knlet, when he urged ‘‘aU Bud­ traffic accidents during the holi­ and 640 persons would die on the said 30 policemen and 21 stu­ young designer. "It’s aM a terr­ If there is going to be a return This technique — descending A 2 '.^j. ~ ka against the first visit to ’To­ dhists to cease acts of self-sac­ day weekend, a record for any dents were injured in clashes ible mistake." to Dior’s old new look, it won't slowly while balancing • on the highways, based on an increase kyo Bay of a U.S. nuclear-pow­ rifice in the name of Dharma Memorial Day observance. The Monday and another 20 persons In Paris a spokesman at Jean catch Mias Bobk napping. A thrust of downward firing rock­ of 800 million miles driven be­ ered submarine. Police said the (the Buddhist gospel).’’ period extended from 6 p.'m. were hurt Sunday, when Gie Patou said: year ago she predicted long, ets — is believed the only safe cause cf the hoUday. demonstration was orderly in U.S. officials said the Bud­ protests started. “ Skirts are going to lengthen long skirts were coming, way to land on the airless moon. This is about 26 per cent more the port city, which is near To­ dhists may be willing to accept ('It in the autiunn. The short-short milady does embrace the In the maneuver at 2:'16 a.m.